Quick Editing comments causes Comment Parent to be lost

[grahamstoney]

I’ve noticed for a while that my replies to comments on my blog are losing their “In reply to” line in the comment editor, indicating that their comment parent field is getting set to zero, and I’ve just found the culprit: it’s the Yoast Comment Hacks plugin!

To replicate the problem:

1. Go to Comments on the Dashboard
2. Click Quick Edit under any comment that is “In reply to” another
3. Click Update Comment (you don’t need to modify the comment)
   *. Everything looks fine, but it’s not.
4. Refresh the browser page to reload the comments page
5. Notice that the “In reply to” has disappeared

This plugin has a field on the Comment Edit page to let you fix this; but surely it’s not supposed to break it!

This issue is present in Yoast Comment Hacks 1.7 has also been reported on the WordPress.org forums here.